[applause] >> that was mitt romney at the convention. at the republican convention. but when it came to the presidential debate, neither nor mitt romneyeyvobama brought up climate change. i want to bring in greg jones,, is a professor of internal studies at southern oregon university in ashland. the connection between the super storm we are seeing and climate change? >> this is a fairly unique event. i kind of worried as the, to set these type of unique events are clearly more frequent. we have the conditions that produce something that could be very damaging to the nine states. i often wonder why we do not seem more of that. the question today is, where we are in terms of our climate science the understanding of these things, the rarity of this event is what makes it very unique. i think all of the conditions came together to produce a superstorm. we have had a few that have been close to this. given the number of people involved and located, it is a very problematic event. >> bill mckibben, what you think has to happen? you have been traveling the world, warning pe